Just another indication that Courtney Love is worthless...
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Sounds like she put on a real winner of a show in DC last night...
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktra ... s-col-blog
Courtney Love leads Hole through disastrous 9:30 club concert
We saw Hole at 9:30 club on Sunday. And we somehow lived through it. (All photos by Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)
By David Malitz
"You get the Bruce Springsteen set, sorry."
Courtney Love muttered those words at some point during Hole's show Sunday night at the 9:30 club. It's hard to remember exactly when. Time seemed to stand still for so much of the evening. If she meant that we were in for a nearly three-hour concert, then yes, her statement was true. If she meant that we would experience a well-oiled rock-and-roll machine and everybody would leave feeling satisfied they got their money's worth ... let's come back to that one.
It's safe to say the people yelling "Bull[expletive]! This is bull[expletive]!" didn't feel like their $45 was well spent. There were more than a handful of patrons shouting and cursing at the endlessly controversial, occasionally coherent 45-year-old rock trainwreck. Many more simply headed for the exits. Three-quarters-filled at the start, the club was no more than a quarter packed by the excruciating end.
Make no mistake - this was an astonishingly awful performance that had few moments of redeeming musical value. Song titles, lyrics, guitar chords - Love remembered only some of them, and infrequently. Then again, what was really the best-case musical scenario? A competent recreation of songs more than a decade old, played by Love and her latest hired hands? Is that what people wanted to see - Courtney karaoke versions of '90s MTV buzz clips? Maybe. But probably not. Perhaps a bit more professionalism would have been nice but in 2010 you pay your $45 hoping for the Courtney Love Experience. And Sunday night was an experience like no other.
(The painful blow-by-blow, after the jump.)
She took the stage nearly an hour past the advertised 9:30 start time, smoking a cigarette, rambling for a minute about how she was late because she had just been hanging out with a senator friend. (Leave your best guesses in the comments.) She also introduced an assistant, Lisa, who was on stage for the entire show filming Love on an iPhone. Not on the side of the stage. Not filming a few songs. The entire show, on stage, often directly in front of Love. Love, naturally, played to the camera more than her fans. She preened, she constantly sang in its direction, she looked like she was trying to seduce it. Love and Lisa huddled before, during and after songs, conferring about what angles to shoot, like they were Bogdanovich and Kovacs.
When one fan near the front complained that Lisa was being obstructive Love quickly snapped, "[Expletive] you, she's with me." She introduced "Someone Else's Bed" as a "deeply emotional song" and spent the first 30 seconds of it instructing Lisa where to situate herself to get the best angle of Love giving it her faux-heartfelt best.
The between song chatter was more than just chatter. Ten minutes without playing a song? Sure, let's do that a few times. She talked about her courting style ("I never chase"), being anorexic and bulimic, quizzed fans on the meaning of her late husband Kurt Cobain's lyrics, twice mentioned how The Washington Post hated her new album "Nobody's Daughter," and name-dropped a "TMZ" episode's worth of celebrities, from Trent Reznor to Diablo Cody to George Clooney, even Douglas Fairbanks. She asked what the lamest Hole song was and cursed at people when they gave the wrong answer.
When Love got around to singing, her voice sounded as if something died in her throat earlier in the day. Love has a blood-curdling howl, by far her most effective asset as a performer. She just should have used it more on Sunday. During the choruses of "Miss World" and "Violet" - two of her best and most popular songs - she turned the microphone to the crowd and didn't even bother singing. Other times she skipped lines in order to cough, or take a sip of water or just ... not sing. Of the nearly 30 songs (or song fragments), not even a handful were completed without some minor disaster.
Love took a request for "Rock Star" despite admitting she didn't remember how to play it. She stumbled through half the song without strumming anything resembling one correct chord. (Why didn't she just Google the tablature on the iPhone?) She played a new song, "Pretty Your Whole Life." It was bad. Half an hour later she played it again. It was worse.
Love eventually decided to have some of her fans join her on stage. She started plucking some from the crowd and they simply sat off to the side. "Do you really like rock music?" she asked one female. "Because you're African-American. That would be like me being into Lil Wayne." She wasn't joking. One fan came on stage with a poster and asked Love to sign it. "No socializing interaction! Go sit over there."
Before the encore another one of Love's handlers told the remaining faithful that they would have to be loud because there was someone who was waiting to have sex with Love and it would take lots of applause to get her to delay that appointment. Sure enough Love did re-emerge, this time wearing a skin-colored see-through top, sans bra. It would have been blurred out on TV, even on E!
She quickly became self-conscious and asked the audience for a bra, promising unlimited merchandise to whoever gave her one. One came flying onto the stage and Love removed her top to put it on. She did this at the back corner of the stage, so we could only see her bare back. She then repeatedly talked about how the bra was too big for her.
The encore contained a Rolling Stones cover (the second of the night), a Leonard Cohen cover ("Take This Longing") and the back-to-back of originals "Car Crash" and "Awful." Was this irony or were we well past that? Most of her backing band had retired for the night by this point leaving Love and guitarist Micko Larkin alone on stage. Then came a cover of Big Star's "Thirteen" that likely had Alex Chilton doing 360s in his grave. Before closer "Northern Lights" she ripped off the bra. Obviously. It's actually somewhat surprising she didn't play Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea" while completely topless.
"This is a really weird show," Love said in perhaps the understatement of the night a bit earlier. "I can't tell if it's really terrible."
Courtney, let me tell you something. In just the past year and a half, I've been to about 400 shows. I've seen some really terrible ones. And this was really the most terrible. No question. But the vast majority of those 400 shows, I went there, I saw it, and almost immediately forgot I was there. I'll never forget this night with Courtney Love, no matter how much I may want to. And isn't that really what she's always wanted?
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/clicktra ... s-col-blog
Courtney Love leads Hole through disastrous 9:30 club concert
We saw Hole at 9:30 club on Sunday. And we somehow lived through it. (All photos by Kyle Gustafson/FTWP)
By David Malitz
"You get the Bruce Springsteen set, sorry."
Courtney Love muttered those words at some point during Hole's show Sunday night at the 9:30 club. It's hard to remember exactly when. Time seemed to stand still for so much of the evening. If she meant that we were in for a nearly three-hour concert, then yes, her statement was true. If she meant that we would experience a well-oiled rock-and-roll machine and everybody would leave feeling satisfied they got their money's worth ... let's come back to that one.
It's safe to say the people yelling "Bull[expletive]! This is bull[expletive]!" didn't feel like their $45 was well spent. There were more than a handful of patrons shouting and cursing at the endlessly controversial, occasionally coherent 45-year-old rock trainwreck. Many more simply headed for the exits. Three-quarters-filled at the start, the club was no more than a quarter packed by the excruciating end.
Make no mistake - this was an astonishingly awful performance that had few moments of redeeming musical value. Song titles, lyrics, guitar chords - Love remembered only some of them, and infrequently. Then again, what was really the best-case musical scenario? A competent recreation of songs more than a decade old, played by Love and her latest hired hands? Is that what people wanted to see - Courtney karaoke versions of '90s MTV buzz clips? Maybe. But probably not. Perhaps a bit more professionalism would have been nice but in 2010 you pay your $45 hoping for the Courtney Love Experience. And Sunday night was an experience like no other.
(The painful blow-by-blow, after the jump.)
She took the stage nearly an hour past the advertised 9:30 start time, smoking a cigarette, rambling for a minute about how she was late because she had just been hanging out with a senator friend. (Leave your best guesses in the comments.) She also introduced an assistant, Lisa, who was on stage for the entire show filming Love on an iPhone. Not on the side of the stage. Not filming a few songs. The entire show, on stage, often directly in front of Love. Love, naturally, played to the camera more than her fans. She preened, she constantly sang in its direction, she looked like she was trying to seduce it. Love and Lisa huddled before, during and after songs, conferring about what angles to shoot, like they were Bogdanovich and Kovacs.
When one fan near the front complained that Lisa was being obstructive Love quickly snapped, "[Expletive] you, she's with me." She introduced "Someone Else's Bed" as a "deeply emotional song" and spent the first 30 seconds of it instructing Lisa where to situate herself to get the best angle of Love giving it her faux-heartfelt best.
The between song chatter was more than just chatter. Ten minutes without playing a song? Sure, let's do that a few times. She talked about her courting style ("I never chase"), being anorexic and bulimic, quizzed fans on the meaning of her late husband Kurt Cobain's lyrics, twice mentioned how The Washington Post hated her new album "Nobody's Daughter," and name-dropped a "TMZ" episode's worth of celebrities, from Trent Reznor to Diablo Cody to George Clooney, even Douglas Fairbanks. She asked what the lamest Hole song was and cursed at people when they gave the wrong answer.
When Love got around to singing, her voice sounded as if something died in her throat earlier in the day. Love has a blood-curdling howl, by far her most effective asset as a performer. She just should have used it more on Sunday. During the choruses of "Miss World" and "Violet" - two of her best and most popular songs - she turned the microphone to the crowd and didn't even bother singing. Other times she skipped lines in order to cough, or take a sip of water or just ... not sing. Of the nearly 30 songs (or song fragments), not even a handful were completed without some minor disaster.
Love took a request for "Rock Star" despite admitting she didn't remember how to play it. She stumbled through half the song without strumming anything resembling one correct chord. (Why didn't she just Google the tablature on the iPhone?) She played a new song, "Pretty Your Whole Life." It was bad. Half an hour later she played it again. It was worse.
Love eventually decided to have some of her fans join her on stage. She started plucking some from the crowd and they simply sat off to the side. "Do you really like rock music?" she asked one female. "Because you're African-American. That would be like me being into Lil Wayne." She wasn't joking. One fan came on stage with a poster and asked Love to sign it. "No socializing interaction! Go sit over there."
Before the encore another one of Love's handlers told the remaining faithful that they would have to be loud because there was someone who was waiting to have sex with Love and it would take lots of applause to get her to delay that appointment. Sure enough Love did re-emerge, this time wearing a skin-colored see-through top, sans bra. It would have been blurred out on TV, even on E!
She quickly became self-conscious and asked the audience for a bra, promising unlimited merchandise to whoever gave her one. One came flying onto the stage and Love removed her top to put it on. She did this at the back corner of the stage, so we could only see her bare back. She then repeatedly talked about how the bra was too big for her.
The encore contained a Rolling Stones cover (the second of the night), a Leonard Cohen cover ("Take This Longing") and the back-to-back of originals "Car Crash" and "Awful." Was this irony or were we well past that? Most of her backing band had retired for the night by this point leaving Love and guitarist Micko Larkin alone on stage. Then came a cover of Big Star's "Thirteen" that likely had Alex Chilton doing 360s in his grave. Before closer "Northern Lights" she ripped off the bra. Obviously. It's actually somewhat surprising she didn't play Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea" while completely topless.
"This is a really weird show," Love said in perhaps the understatement of the night a bit earlier. "I can't tell if it's really terrible."
Courtney, let me tell you something. In just the past year and a half, I've been to about 400 shows. I've seen some really terrible ones. And this was really the most terrible. No question. But the vast majority of those 400 shows, I went there, I saw it, and almost immediately forgot I was there. I'll never forget this night with Courtney Love, no matter how much I may want to. And isn't that really what she's always wanted?
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went back and read the whole thing....
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Anyone paying to see that hack perform deserves to have their money taken. In my humble opinion, of course.
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Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
how come there's no smiley for "not surprised at all"?
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actually i watched her on the kroq weenie roast webcast and i was pleasantly surprised...i thought it would be like the show described above but she sounded good and her between songs 'chats' weren't too far out there...but i knew it couldn't last too long
y'all really want to have a laugh, read her 'tweets'...batshit crazy doesn't begin to describe it
Saw the weenie roast performance, it was pretty decent.
looking forward to Tues.
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I was at the D.C. show Sunday and it wasn't as great but I still enjoyed it. It's not like I was shocked by her behavior - I know she can be a trainwreck but I still love her!
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I saw her live once in 93,she was bad enough then ... hate to think what she would be like now ... this article gave an indicator
Glad to hear the next show was good...when she takes care of herself, she's great, I just wish she could keep it together all the time
that review was a bit harsh but I was there and as much as I love Courtney it was bad and very strange
You seem to be a fan of Courtney's if that's all you took from the review of the DC show. So to counter your argument, I'll say that Pearl Jam performed for a stellar 2 1/2 hours before they even tried to pull Satan's Bed out of their asses that night... Robert Downey Jr. has proven he can stay clean for more than a minute (last arrest was 2001 I believe)... I don't see how Weiland has been easily forgiven considering that STP show at the end of March when his band left him on stage.
You have to prove yourself to be "strong" and "a survivor" before you can expect anyone else to think of you that way. Courtney hasn't. Just ask her daughter.
ps . . . lost in all this is the fact that Foxy Shazam played an absolutely scorching set as the opener. By themselves they were worth the price of admission.
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So true.
oi i havent slept all night for the chicklit crap im kindleing what IS UP THE WASHINGTON POSTS ASS? you havent even SEEN a "meltdown" sexist
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maybe that's why she was an hour late to the stage in D.C. and Atlanta! She was reading Twilight novels on her Kindle!
You don't think that someone should have an idea of what to expect if they were planning to go see her? I'm doing a public service here!
I figure they may prolly play something off pretty on the inside too and some cover songs.
Thanks.
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DC show from http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/hole/2010 ... 4085a.html
1. Pretty on the Inside Play Video
2. Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones cover) Play Video
3. Samantha Play Video
4. Miss World Play Video
5. Violet Play Video
6. Pretty Your Whole LifeAdditional Information: acousticacoustic Play Video
7. Closer (Nine Inch Nails cover) Play Video
8. The Man That Got Away (Judy Garland cover) Play Video
9. Letter to God Play Video
10. Asking for It Play Video
11. Jennifer's Body Play Video
12. Plump Play Video
13. Pretty Your Whole LifeAdditional Information: She played a 2nd time, with electric guitarsShe played a 2nd time, with electric guitars Play Video
14. Olympia Play Video
15. Pacific Coast Highway Play Video
16. Sunset Marquis Play Video
17. Honey Play Video
18. Celebrity Skin Play Video
19. Someone Else's Bed Play Video
20. Skinny Little Bitch Play Video
21. Encore:
21. Doll Parts Play Video
22. Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones cover) Play Video
23. Malibu Play Video
24. Boys on the Radio Play Video
25. Take This Longing (Leonard Cohen cover) Play Video
26. Car Crash Play Video
27. Awful Play Video
28. Thirteen (Big Star cover) Play Video
29. Never Go Hungry Play Video
30. Northern Star Play Video
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They did alot of the songs mentioned above, and they played "Petals" for the first time in 12 years.
honestly, if you are a Hole fan or are pretty familiar with their material, you will enjoy it.
Her stage banter is pretty funny.
Hung out for a bit with Miko after the show, he was pretty drunk though.
got to say Hi to Courney, but the bodyguard rushed her to the bus pretty quickly.
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